ProQuest has expanded its database of British Periodicals with the launch of Collection IV. British Periodicals is a unique, transformative resource charting contemporary comment on the interests, attitudes, and events across three centuries of British history, politics and culture. From the 17th through the 20th centuries the collections enable users to search in depth across a vast array of material, which would previously have been inaccessible to them.

The new British Periodicals IV Collection strengthens archival coverage of the 20th Century across a diverse range of areas. Collection IV focuses on the area of politics, international affairs and conflict, the arts, and travel and empire. It also serves many other areas of teaching and research in 20th-century topics such as social history, journalism history, and gender studies.

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